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Scott Shackford

The U.K. Government's Latest Encryption Fearmongering Relies on Child Sex-Trafficking Panics

The British government hopes to use parents' fears of child predators in a new marketing campaign designed to undermine end-to-end encryption.

Rolling Stone writer James Ball broke the news on Saturday, reporting that the United Kingdom's Home Office (the British equivalent of America's Department of Justice) was planning "a multi-pronged publicity attack." That attack launched today with the Home Office announcing its partnership with various charities in a "No Place to Hide" campaign that will "urge social media tech companies to put children's safety first on their platforms."

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